This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A 
This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist.
Johannes {Brahms}